Guangzhen Jiang, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar

Guangzhen obtained his Ph.D. from College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China, in 2012. He has worked on fish lipid metabolism and regulation by feeds for his Ph.D. Currently, Guangzhen is working on the tumorigenic roles of SMARCAD1 and NF2 genes using human cell lines and zebrafish models.

Martin R. Silic, lab technician

Martin Silic completed his undergraduate studies at Purdue University in 2016 obtaining a bachelor's degree in biology, with a concentration in molecular biology. His undergraduate research investigated viral gene expression in the poxvirus Vaccinia. He now continues his interests in disease and genetics by performing genetic sorting of the labs plethora of mutant fish lines. In addition to genotyping, he assists Dr. Zhang with multiple of his current research projects involving human-zebrafish comparative pathobiology.